What did I get myself into?

I mentioned doing a preschool co-op in one of my last posts. At the time I loved it. Maybe after I recover from my week of teaching, I will love it again. But right now I'm not so sure. It might have been easier if I wasn't 37-38 weeks pregnant when it was my turn.

I taught the boys about fire safety. My main motivation for doing this is that Bridger has been obsessed about firemen lately. He really wanted to see the fire station and I was too embarrassed to just take Bridger. So I had this great idea that I would use one of my days to take the preschool group to the fire station. Thus solving the problem of taking Bridger to the fire station and keeping my house from being destroyed on one of my days.

Day 1: I though I would go through the basics: Stop, Drop and Roll, Stay low and go etc. I had tons of ideas and thought it would go well. The thing I was not prepared for was the fact that I had seven boys that thought they knew all the answers. Most of them did know a lot and I was happy that they had such great moms that taught them about being safe (Good job moms!). The problem was that I had to continually break up arguments between the boys about who was right and who got to talk. They would just start yelling at each other to be quiet so they could say something. So what did I do? I joined them! I had to keep telling them that THEY needed to be quiet so I could say something. Circle time didn't last long. We moved on to games. We practiced crawling under smoke and rolling to put out fire. That went much better.

Day 2: We went to the fire station. I think the boys had fun. They were really polite and good most of the time. We started to lose them at the end. The firemen were VERY thorough about the tour. We saw the office and the computer in the office and the telephone and the bathrooms and the lockers where they put there clothes when they showered and...you get the point. The kids just wanted to see the fire truck and the firemen's clothes then leave.